Archive for 2009

A New Study claims to have discovered the “secret” of being a successful entrepreneur. It’s from the Kauffman Foundation a resource I trust on the matter.
In other words, the successful entrepreneurs built on what they already possessed or had acquired through life experience, work experience, and combined it with a willingness to take a calculated [...]

Eight years ago, I started this blog to separate the wheat from the chaff of the business opportunities I found online.
It’s been a fun ride and one that I couldn’t have kept up this long without my loyal readers. Over 100,000 of you subscribe to this blog and read it daily in your email, via [...]

Jonathan Leger is the creator of Niche Horde. Here’s his latest report on how the product helped people achieve “Top 10″ rankings in Google in 2-5 days.
A customer of mine posted some incredible results on the Niche Horde forum yesterday, and I had to share it with you.  In case you aren’t aware, Niche Horde is my [...]

Article Marketing and List Building
by Dave Lovelace
Article marketing is one of the best ways to gain traffic for free. Using your expertise in the niche market, you can attract the kind of readership that would be interested in the product or service that you are marketing. Use it to build a money-making list.
The goal of [...]

Here’s a fact filled article from USA Today on how a home based wedding photographer turned $600 to $40,000 using highly targeted Facebook ads.
How’d he do that?
He targeted males aged 24-30 in his target marketing area who showed their profile as “engaged”… these are the only people who saw his advertising. And they were [...]

I’ve been thinking about this a good deal since I just destroyed my last credit card after paying off the account. My first thought was… “will I ever go on vacation again?” And panic gripped me. Yes, I’ll be going on vacation again, just not paying it off over the next 20 years. So my [...]

Remember the post on  “One Penny Sales”? It was about an Amish merchant found a way to build a profitable in house mailing list that generated almost a 15% response from every mailing by selling products valued at $5 to $15 for one penny and how he got those items to sell for free. It was [...]

Here’s an interesting trend… could you find a way to be an intermediary between companies getting rid of used DVD’s and companies wanting to sell used DVD’s? Could you set up a system of racks in local businesses with good traffic to make money for both of you?
If that’s a thought you like, you may [...]

Why does RedBox work?  That’s what I asked myself tonight when I rented a RedBox movie for the very first time. I’d just left a Blockbuster where you know you’re going to pay almost $5 for a new movie and $3 for an older movie. Plus tax of course.
RedBox compared to Blockbuster is Aldi’s compared [...]

In the next few posts I’ll be posting information about the new The Official Alibaba.com Success Guide: Insider Tips and Strategies for Sourcing Products from the Worlds Largest B2B Marketplace.
Ok, in the first post I got you the basics – the publisher’s description and the Table of Contents.
Let me begin by discussing Jack Ma’s foreward. [...]